Partnering with Peer Leaders to create inclusive academic support environments
Jennifer Lundmark, California State University-Sacramento; Enid Gonzalez-Orta, California State University-Sacramento; Kelly McDonald, California State University-Sacramento
The Science and Math Success Center at Sacramento State houses a number of peer support p performance and retention. The Success Center's three main programs, Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL), Science Educational ...

National Academies' Roundtable on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education: Directions and Opportunities
Ann Austin, Michigan State University; Mark Rosenberg, Florida International University; Kerry Brenner, The National Academies; Noah Finkelstein, University of Colorado at Boulder
The National Academies for Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has initiated a multi-year Roundtable on Systemic Reform in Undergraduate STEM Education to focus on the future of undergraduate STEM education and ...

Bringing an asset-based community development framework to university change work
Stephen Biscotte, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ; Najla Miranda Mouchrek, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ
In higher education, the impetus for change is often the identification of a specific need, problem-area, or under-performance. For example, the institution recognizes that their female retention rates in STEM are ...

Transforming the Teaching of Thousands: Promoting Evidence-based Practices at Scale
Kay Halasek, Ohio State University-Main Campus; Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University-Main Campus
What happens when a Research I university president charges a group of faculty thought leaders with questioning the standard paradigm of instruction and envisioning a system that more effectively promotes continual ...

Characterizing departmental culture and assessing change with the DELTA survey
Courtney Ngai, Colorado State University; Daniel Reinholz, San Diego State University
There have been many change initiatives to improve undergraduate education, but despite investment of significant resources, implemented changes do not always last. Researchers in organizational change suggest that ...

Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate STEM Education: CAUSE for Transformation to Evidence-based Teaching Practices
Mary Pat Wenderoth, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus; Jennifer Doherty, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus; Deborah Wiegand, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus
We have created the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate STEM Education (CAUSE) to implement evidence-based teaching in STEM departments at Univeristy of Washington. The goal of CAUSE is to transform the ...

Student-driven approaches to adding discussions of race and racism to STEM courses
Monica Linden, Brown University; Bjorn Sandstede, Brown University
This presentation focuses on two new courses on race and gender in STEM at Brown University that were initiated by students. The first course on race and gender in the scientific community was run for a semester as ...

Five-years of undergraduate STEM Education Reform at Western Washington University, Whatcom Community College, and Skagit Valley College: Progress, Challenges, and Next Steps
Ed Geary, Western Washington University; Shannon Warren, Western Washington University
Change at the Core (C-Core) is a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary, undergraduate STEM Education reform project at Western Washington University (WWU), Whatcom Community College (WCC), and Skagit Valley ...

Guided by Evidence: Changing the Disciplinary Culture of Teaching and Learning
Kaci Thompson, University of Maryland-College Park; Michelle Bertke, University of Maryland-College Park; Todd Cooke, University of Maryland-College Park; Joelle Presson, University of Maryland-College Park; Francisca Saavedra, University of Maryland-College Park; Patrick Sheehan, University of Maryland-College Park; Gili Marbach-Ad, University of Maryland-College Park
Students learn better when they are actively engaged in constructing knowledge, but teaching approaches that foster student engagement are far from widespread in undergraduate STEM classrooms. To remedy this, the ...